The St. Leger was won on Wednesday by Gladiateur, who
has _ thus proved himself the most wonderful of living horses—having VIM the Two Thousand, the Derby, the Grand Prfx de Paris, and the Yorkshire race with equal- saw A d'enianct for a judicial examination of his mouth, made by the owner of Regalia, who ran second, was wisely rejected by the stewards. It is impossible to suppose the evidence of Gladiateur's age to be falsified without deliberately accusing the whole body of French racing men of a systematic conspiracy for fraud. To say nothing of the impro- bability of such a conspiracy being possible, Englishmen remember the courtesy due to noire ami l'ennemi, and nothing short of the strongest prima facie evidence could have justified the Doncaster authorities in casting the shachw of a doubt upon the honour of the French turf. An attack upon the French horse and his jockey was considered so probable, that a score orLondon fighting men, headed by Mace, escorted the couple from the winning-post to the scales. The Yorkshire roughs, however, accepted the posi- tion with masterly generalship, and contented themselves with cheering enthusiastically both horse, jockey, and bodyguard. Perhaps the novelty of Mr. Mace's appearance as' the representa- tive of law and order proved too entertaining to. allow their angry feelings to get the mastery.
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